Battleangel

Though American economic interests are sure to buckle under the pressure as they would lose dominion over large areas of the globe. US says urge to censor underlies calls for reform. The US seems unable to grasp how much the rest of the world loathes and distrusts them. They may even believe it themselves. Because why else would anyone want to wrestle control of the root servers from the greatest country and democracy that has ever existed (and under God too).
Here is a better headline: “Imperial unilateralism and grandstanding underlies US non-cooperation.”

Or as the PNAC formulated it in their Rebuilding America’s Defenses.

If outer space represents an emerging medium of warfare, then cyberspace, and in particular the Internet hold similar promise and threat. And as with space, access to and use of cyberspace and the Internet are emerging elements in global commerce, politics and power. Any nation wishing to assert itself globally must take account of this other new global commons.

Consequently, the supreme ability to effectively deprive someone from Internet access in terms of domain name lookup will in many ways be just as crippling as having a GPS blackout. Which is also incidentally the very reason Europe constructed its own GPS equivalent in Galileo. Of course Galileo now joins the global satellite navigation system (GNSS) and as such doubles the infrastructure of GPS, leading to centimetre accuracy over large regions. But it remains a system that Europe could recall in a time of breakdown with the United States and one that asserts Europe’s global role against that of the US military.

Also note the blatantly fraudulent claim by the Council On Foreign Relations, asserting that ICANN is an “American NGO” .. controlled by the DoC? My dictionary defines NGO as “An organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government.” But since ICANN is an appendage of the US government, for at least another year (officially!), and we all saw what happened with the .XXX domain in practise, it is safe to claim that the NGO status is somewhat hyperbolized. Many American also continue to exaggerate the US role in the development of the Internet. It becomes clear that the world, eager to develop the exciting new technology, should have never cooperated with the US on its soil in the first place. As it stands, any additions that we have made have been usurped by brigands who claim them as their own.